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I wouldn't have thought so. Plenty forums I visit on a daily/weekly basis. The football team I support have an unofficial fan forum which still runs on an anti

• spurgu 4y ago
  > Isn't Hacker News technically a forum too, just a bit more bespoke & for lack of better words, reddit-y? I think the main distinction between "forums" and "Reddit/HN/FB/Twitter" is that when posting on a forum that thread goes up to the top of the "feed", i.e. threads are sorted in chronological order by latest activity. On Reddit/HN/FB/Twitter threads tend to die over time, due to the algorithms. On Reddit discussion literally dies after 6 months when a post is locked. On Twitter on the other hand old "threads" can be resurrected by activity or retweeting but yeah, it's nothing resembling a forum, one of which strengths is the ability to maintain threads running actively for multiple years. So in conclusion I'd say HN is somewhat in-between. There's no notifications for replies built-in, but there is https://hnreplies.com/ https://hnreplies.com/ so essentially it's possible to maintain an active thread (between the participants who receive notifications) but there won't be any new users discovering the discussion taking place.